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Issue: Zip Comics #35

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Publication Date: March 1943

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Issues: #35 of 47 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

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Publisher: Flag

Archie Publications, Inc.

Brand: An MLJ Publication

Indicia Publisher: M. L. J. Magazines Inc.

On Sale Date: 12/26/1942

Volume: 1

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 11 (9 stories, 1 cover)

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing

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Content Items (11 total)

Steel Sterling Upholds America's Honor!!

Illustration on Cover, Front

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Web; Steel Sterling

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Pages: 1

Lisbon

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Steel Sterling [John Sterling]; Clancy McGinty (Police); Sgt. Looney; Von Klune (Gertapo agent)

First Line: Ouch! Help! Someone help!

Synopsis: A Secret Service agent in Portugal is arrested on evidence unearthed by German agents, and Looney is sent to obtain this "evidence" before the trial. With the help of Steel.

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Pages: 12

The Web and the Book

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Web (John Raymond); Prof. Andive (book collector); Mr. Whithers (store keeper); William Foster (ex-convict); Warden Flick (villain)

First Line: It was only a book!

Synopsis: A book collector is murdered for an old book, and the trail leads to an ex-convict, and then to the warden himself.

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Pages: 12

The Paralyzed Thumb

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): Flynn Livingston

Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Web [John Raymond]; Michael Dean; Dorothy Dean

First Line: The bullet bit into Michael Dean's shoulder ... but he didn't cry out.

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Pages: 2

Dame of Fate

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Black Jack [Jack Jones]; Judy [Vivienne]

First Line: Ha! Ha! What fools these mortals be!

Synopsis: Black Jack is taken back in time to the French Revolution and the Guilliotine.

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Pages: 10

Notes: This is the final appearance of the "Black Jack" feature in Zip Comics. The feature appears next in Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1992 Series) #50 (August 2000).

Mother-in-Law

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Character(s): Wilbur Wilkin; Robert Wilkin (dad); Mrs. Wilkin (mom); Mother-in-Law

First Line: Oh boy! Am I burning 'em in!

Synopsis: Robert's mother-in-law is coming for a visit.

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Pages: 6

Introducing Ginger

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Genres: teen

Character(s): Ginger Snap (introduction); Dotty (introduction); Principal Grump (introduction); Lotta Snap (mom, introduction); John Whipper Snap (dad, introduction)

First Line: San Francisco may have its earthquakes, Florida its cyclones, Texas its tornados...

Synopsis: Ginger tries to avoid Principal Grump at a football game after he bans her from cheering at the game following a megaphone mishap.

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Pages: 6

Notes: First appearance of Ginger, which would continue as an Archie feature until 1954. Hillwood High plays MLJ Sub-Normal Academy and its Coach Silverkleit in a football game, a reference to publisher MLJ Comics and co-founder Louis Silberkleit. (Unclear if character name is typo or pun on athletic cleat.) Ginger's last name is originally spelled as "Snap" in this story before evolving to "Snapp" in future stories.

Gags

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Genres: humorous

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside the signature square is another name not readable.

Semyon Timoshenko

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Genres: informational, non-fiction, war

Character(s): Marshal Semyon Timoshenko

First Line: When the lights of Europe are once again kindled...

Synopsis: The story of a Russian Marshal fighting the German army.

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[untitled]

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Genres: non-fiction

First Line: The flower pot plant shapes its leaves into a pot-like form that holds its own roots.

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The Tale of Hugh Sinclair

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Genres: occult, superhero

Character(s): Zambini (magician); Hugh Sinclair (profiteer)

First Line: Listen, Americans, the wheels of industry are humming, singing out a tune in the key of "V."

Synopsis: A tale of Hugh Sinclair, one of those despicable men America can do without, and to whom profit means more than help winning the war

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Pages: 6

Notes: This is the final appearance of the "Zambini" feature.